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"Woe betides anyone getting in the way of people that keep on muddying the waters, throwing up smoke screens and clouding issues, so as to conceal their dubious motivations. ['Could the milkman be the devil?']"
"Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: 'I must stop him before he stops me.' In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful."
"When you give certain unnecessary people the reason and permission to oppose you, give them the power and strength to oppose you."
"If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side's battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it."
"An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible."
"Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself."
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"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."
"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"
"To [the government] it didn't matter what happened to the American people as long as america in the abstract was kept strong."
"John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."
"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value."
"No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be."
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